Thank You - Glider

edit2: due to some scheduling shift on their end, youtube's gonna run the spotlight feature on the dec 30th, not 19
edit: just received this letter from youtube:
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Hi Xiaonan,

Congratulations! As you probably know, your channel received the top votes for the DecemberOn The Rise blog post, which means you'll be featured on the YouTube home page for a day.

The homepage spotlight is set to happen on Monday, December 19th. Typically we'll show a promo/overview video (more details below) as well as up to 3 of your existing videos. We're also planning to run a follow-up post on the YouTube blog again the same day, including your promo video and a blurb in your words.

So here's what we'll need from you, ideally by this Thursday, December 15:
Overview video - This will be the main feature in the blog/on the homepage, Keep in mind this video will likely get 100k+ views and is your main promotion on the YT homepage, so it's worth spending some time on if you have it! When you upload, please upload as "Unlisted."
I've also attached a one-sheeter with some tips from our Audience Development team, to help you make the most of the spotlight feature.
Your 3 favorite videos that already exist on your channel - these will also be featured on the homepage. A few tips:
Pick videos that have the broadest appeal to ALL YouTube users who might see the homepage.
Choose good thumbnails for these videos.
Put all 4 videos in a playlist, or annotate them, to get viewers moving through all of your videos.
A paragraph about your channel and thanking your subscribers/those who voted for you. This will appear in the blog post.
Here are a couple of examples of past winners' blog posts, for reference and inspiration. Feel free to put your own spin on the video and blurb.

Let me know if you have questions, and thanks for your help with the quick turnaround time!

-NAME / Partner support

Hero's video is definitely going up !!

(This blog may seem confusing if you weren't aware what's been happening with a youtube contest i'm in the last few days. If so see blog here) , you can also scroll down for a few quote snapshots from the thread that tells the part of the story.

There maybe many grammar issues as I'm not exactly a person of language

and excuses this long rambling, I want to have this out asap and just kind wrote what is on my mind.

What can I even say?!? It started out as me just making a regular blog showcasing a new art video as well as drawing some attention to a small competition youtube's running. (winner gets channel spotlighted for a day) Mine was one of the final 4 channels chosen and I really believed that my channel would win based on its own merits and that just a few votes from TL would surely seal the deal if need be...nazgul is kind enough to spotlight this.

What happened in the next few days was unpredictable and amazing. I know on the surface it looks just like a mundane internet voting thingy, but what a lot of us felt as we came together, working toward a common goal was far from mundane. We are invested, invested in this community that has bonded together in a way I have not seen in a long time, invested in an idea of what it means to support a fellow member, and invested in a belief of our own power to make changes. I felt like we were brothers in a trench throwing grenades. When I first made the blog, of course I wanted my channel to win, then somewhere during all this I really stopped thinking about my channel and felt what I really wanted now was for us to win. I'm very happy to say that we did win, and that our spirits are high and our morale will be as strong as ever.

Before I thank everyone for their generous effort. I'd like to think that you didn't help me just solely because of my involvement in this community, and that you actually looked at the channels, and even if you've never heard of me, never saw a black and white Nony stare at you with such scorn during TSL, would still consider picking my channel. I hope that during the years my art has lifted your mood a little and that is partly the reason you voted for me. If my video have ever bought even just a few minutes of serenity and peace to you (or dare i say it, surprise and wonder), It served its purpose. After all, today's people are so often stuck in thoughts, dealing with its worries and day to day concerns, that one rarely calm their mind down to feel the presence of the moment, which is the only thing there really is and ever could be.. and I want more people to be in that state more often, to see things not through the limited and rigid mind or the fearful ego, but through a heart that loves to express and create. I would like to think my videos can help people toward this and hope that it is partly the reason you have felt compelled to vote for me.

I'll try not to say anything negative about the competition itself, but it has been a rollercoaster. Those who were following the thread with me, we were in a place of constant nail biting tension. One point we were smiling about a sure win, the next we were losing. One sec we are pulling ahead, the next we are struggling to keep up. We went to bed in victory, and woke up in defeat. This pattern continues the entire way and as the numbers began to tell an unexpected story, we had our mixed feelings about it. As the votes danced back and forth, it was hard to deny that there were forces at work that we didn't fully..err.. understand or appreciate, but I feel grateful toward it because that is the main reason that drived and inspired us to come together, and unified us in a way that is more valuable than any competition result. It made us stronger as a community and this is the greatest good that has come out of it. At one moment fairly early on i was almost about to give up because I realized (due to one reason or another) that we probably can't win, and I can't bare to let people spend their effort on a loss cause, and I almost made my peace. Then i opened the thread and read about how everyone is still voting for me, still telling their friends, combined with naz's constant naggin for me to come up with something.. an inspiration finally came. That night I spent at least 8 hours doing a portrait illusion video that i have never done before and never really attempted before. There simply were problems with its stages of planning that was quiet impossible to accomplish, but this new inspiration gave me the perfect solution and hours later, you have the liquid`herO art video. I did it to give something back, but I also was in fighting spirit again.

Now about the last 12 hours until the voting deadline... At this point many people already invested so much energy into this, and with all the help you guys / Nazqul / countless others have given me thus far, I was ahead by quite a few thousand votes. Given you guys's efforts, all the strings nazgul has pulled, and all the community top figures chipped in to get my number to where it was, I was expected to be ahead a lot more (a sentiment that came up often during this whole thing). but some how the other channel was like a shadow, no matter how hard you push me and how fast I ran, their numbers were right there behind me. Worse yet as the day went on, it was painfully obvious that their number was increasing A LOT faster than mine. Days of people helping, tweeting, clicking, shouting, all the energy invested, all the enthusiasm gathered, were about to be for nothing in terms of winning this competition. The smell of giving up was in the air, a smell that doesn't happen around here and certainly doesn't suit it. By now of course, we have already acomplished more than any other channel did before. Just my own channel had over 50,000 votes and past competitions barely had that in total votes. Nevertheless, every refresh, my votes went up by 2, refresh again, it went up by 3, refreshing yet again, the other channel's vote went up by 80... this was not an encouraging sign, and with less than 10 hours left.. is it time to throw in the towel? After all we have already pushed this far. The pros and the casters that we know and love tweeted for me, gave me shout out on streams, more shout outs were given by my friends who has vast subscribers, you have voted as much as you could, it is all already a lot more than I can ask for or ever could hoped for... we already fought the good fight right? 9 hour until voting ends and I'm down by 10,000 votes, every single refresh that number gets larger. Esports has already shown a lot of its strenghth, fair or not we were out matched... time to close the curtain.. ...that's when...

Nazgul sounded the horn of calling (he has never stopped this really, always working behind the scenes), and this time, more high class warriors came to the rescure of our cause. the epicness of what happened next couldn't be expressed in words, so I hired some actors and put together a little clip, which i believe is a frame by frame 100% accurate re-enactment, all those who were following the thread with me at the time can assure you this truth. May this clip give you a small and limited idea of what we felt at the time (unlisted vid):

(i chuckled @ that the uruk-hai comes in un-ending waves and is spawned from nothing.)

(TotalBiscuit has even put his dignity on the line by telling subscribers that he will sing Santa baby if I win, such are the heroes of esports)

Believe it or not, with TotalBiscuit/TotalHalibut and Husky's combined subscriber base of over 1 mega-charcozillion, we were still not in the clear, we quickly went from losing to well in the lead of course, but this opposing force was truely something else. It really sprang toward us in a desperation to catch up, it is hungry and it wants what we almost have...and the freaky thing is... it is gaining... the gap went from 20,000 to 18,000, then from 18,000 to 15,000 in an hour. It is some how accomplishing the seemingly impossible. However time was on our side, each sec we are closer to victory. We just need to hold out a little longer, just slow it's advance a bit more. We have fought too hard, too long, this isn't about any one person anymore.

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You, combined with all the loyal subscribers did exactly that! Because of you, in the last hour they can no longer close any distance (maybe we've made them given up). 10,000 was their limit and time was running out, they cannot catch up. We were too determined and focused. I think we went up against something that we had very little chance of winning, and won ( - those who were there knows what I'm talking about). We defeated firebats with lings, killed roaches with zealots, decorated the colossus with bullet holes from our machine guns. We were in a disadvantageous position and rushed up the ramp to take the base and won the game.

do not for a single second think that this victory is not as much your as it is mine, winning to be spotlighted is nice, but winning with you guys is better..I had a blast following / refreshing the blog with so many TLers by my side the last few days, even tho at times it is a bit gut-wrenching.

I bought starcraft1 the first day it came out, I remember visiting TL when grrr was the top dog, NTT's scv jokes ran rampant, maynard started his worker transfer, tsunami's zerg guide spread its wisdom, even nazgul's reaver micro (yes he was a progamer), and I never imagined TL could grow to what it is today, and who knows what it will be like 5 years later, but I'll be around to find out.

and I'll be making art videos from time to time, I hope you stop by to check them out.

(totalbiscuit, if you are still doing the santa baby song, please let me make a drawing video of you and have that on as the background, the same offer goes to a lot of people but given my strained time lets start somewhere for now)

The people I like to specially thank in no particular order:
Naz
TLO
Jinro
Tyler
TB
Husky
Day9
Ariwa
Sheth
Zenio -
my frd rob
reddit/starcraft
"EverySingleFuckingPersonInThatThread and all others who kept voting, Live reported, made graphs and took statistics."
loose quote taken from thread, which i agree wholeheartedly.

probably a lot more , when i do remember i'll try to update.

oh and I did a video drawing of liquid`zenio since he was a recent addition and never had a drawing done. it is on teamliqud's youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/teamliquidnet

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here is a few snap shots of TLer's quote from the voting thread to give you an idea of the craziness that went down.

day 4 and 5
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On December 10 2011 04:52 dAPhREAk wrote:
voted. winning now!

On December 10 2011 05:55 hitpoint wrote:
The poll is super close. 1% difference.

On December 10 2011 11:42 Divinek wrote:
2 days left pour it onnnnnnnn

On December 10 2011 12:29 ptbl wrote:
Oh man, JenniferESL is catching up again.

On December 10 2011 08:46 stokes17 wrote:
1100 vote lead.... Keep it up TL !! woot woot

On December 10 2011 16:19 bigwig123 wrote:
as of now he is tied at 36% lets give him the push he needs to win this guys

On December 10 2011 16:36 HeavOnEarth wrote:
its soo fucking close -_-;;;

On December 10 2011 17:51 ShotgunMike wrote:

Voted! ~250 votes behind now!! GO GO GO GO VOTE!

On December 10 2011 19:30 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
guys it's super close he is behind again if you see this don't assume we're winning without your vote

On December 10 2011 21:05 Speedbump wrote:
Just voted. He's up by 170ish atm.

On December 10 2011 22:41 GetToDaChopa wrote:
Tied, wtf.

On December 11 2011 00:41 Draconicfire wrote:
Gah, shes winning again.

On December 11 2011 03:25 hongo wrote:
He can win it! He's up again, by 1%, gogo!

On December 11 2011 04:41 pPingu wrote:
Looks like jenny is coming back again, she gained a lot of votes

On December 11 2011 06:20 Steel wrote:
Damn, you're in the lead again. I'm on the school computer so I got to vote again. So tense o_o

On December 11 2011 08:14 stokes17 wrote:
ugh O Glider's lead is disappearing...

On December 11 2011 09:45 Acnologia wrote:
JenniferESL is pulling away..

On December 11 2011 10:13 Seeker wrote:
Can't win..... JenniferESL keeps getting +7 for our every +3 ;/

On December 11 2011 10:34 Seeker wrote:
Sigh...... we're closing in on the gap but IT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!!

On December 11 2011 10:36 JWD wrote:
Holy crap this is close! Voted!

On December 11 2011 12:28 Seeker wrote:
Blah...... this is bull..... she's over 300

On December 11 2011 12:56 SCJethro wrote:
Just tied 40% to 40% gogogogogogo

On December 11 2011 13:15 Seeker wrote:
DO NOT DROP YOUR GUARD!!

EVERY TIME WE'RE IN THE LEAD, SHE PULLS THIS WEIRD SHIT AND GOES UP BY 200!!! KEEP FIGHTING!!!

On December 11 2011 13:21 Seeker wrote:
KEEEP FIGHTING!!!!! KEEEP FIGHTING!!1

DO NOT LOSE THE LEAD!!

On December 11 2011 13:27 pPingu wrote:
Too fucking close...

Sorry, but I have to sleep 5:30 here...

Hope you will be able to take a lead, and some people will help us

SHE S FUCKING AHEAD

On December 11 2011 13:28 Seeker wrote:
She's in the lead again....

Told u.....

On December 11 2011 13:29 SoulTakerz wrote:
she just got 40 vote in like 3 seconds I'm not even kidding

On December 11 2011 13:57 Seeker wrote:
Lol...... time to GG?

On December 11 2011 14:01 ticklishmusic wrote:
WHAT? How the heck did she get so many votes all of a sudden? This is such bull...

On December 11 2011 14:08 Dodgin wrote:
I think it's time to throw in the towel boys, 500 ahead now...

from last day part 1
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On December 12 2011 03:21 Latham wrote:
TB and Apollo @ SCAN invitational gave us a huge lead =)
GoGo Glider and gogo SC community ^_^

On December 12 2011 02:07 masterbreti wrote:
Were 1500 ahead it looks like. Keep it going people!

On December 12 2011 05:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
we are 4k ahead now!

On December 12 2011 08:54 procyonlotor wrote:
Another shoutout from Day9. Victory draws ever closer.

On December 12 2011 10:05 Goibon wrote:
She just jumped 300 votes in the past not very long.

This shit is on again.

On December 12 2011 10:19 Cowpieguy wrote:
Just voted and Glider is winning, but barely! 45% to 41%

On December 12 2011 10:26 IWork4Skynet wrote:
I'm checking this and the youtube blog like is a LR thread :D.

On December 12 2011 16:11 Seeker wrote:
a) Our lead is 4500 AWESOME!!

b) our lead has been 4500 for like 8 hours now..... :[

which means for some reason, no matter how much we're voting, the gap is not getting any bigger. She is somehow never letting the lead keep going up. U could probably say the equivalent of we have 5 bases she has 2...... but holy crap, she is muling the heck out of those 2 bases!

On December 12 2011 19:31 Valkola wrote:
come on guys she's catching up! still 13+ hours to go!

On December 12 2011 19:54 pPingu wrote:
We are only 3000 votes ahead and she is gaining a lot of votes...

On December 12 2011 21:42 darksagus wrote:
Wow, she's catching up kinda fast

On December 12 2011 22:20 Hammer442 wrote:
JenniferESL is rising by around 50 votes every minute now, going to be close. VOTE VOTE VOTE!.

On December 12 2011 22:09 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Alright, I got this shit, don't stress. Gimme a few hours.

On December 12 2011 23:07 JOJOsc2news wrote:
What is your brilliant plan TB??? Ohhh the suspense...

On December 12 2011 23:34 TMOUllrich wrote:
Unleash the weapon !!! We cannoot hold much longer, for Aiur !!!

On December 12 2011 23:41 Draconicfire wrote:
Oh man, 4k up last night, only 700 up now. Getting inteennnsseee

On December 12 2011 23:58 MaBlo wrote:
Well, it has been a hell of a fight, but unelss someone internet-famouse picks this up in the next couple of hours ThePortraitArt lost this for sure...

On December 13 2011 00:18 Draconicfire wrote:
Overtaken

On December 13 2011 00:24 cauchy.riemann wrote:
Well she is ahead 300 Votes soon and right now she gets absurd Votes per minute..just unreal.

On December 13 2011 01:12 friendlyass wrote:
wow 1000 votes down, what the hell is going on

On December 13 2011 01:32 Jetaap wrote:
Unfortunately it looks that no matter what we do she will always end up ahead it's really discouraging

On December 13 2011 01:36 TOCHMY wrote:
shes up by 1700 now...

EDIT: 10 seconds after this post she was up another 50... WHAT THE F

On December 13 2011 01:43 AndyGB4 wrote:
TotalBiscuit tweeted:

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Is he talking about Glider's votes? I really hope so!

EDIT:

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I guess so

woohoo!! TB!

On December 13 2011 02:10 EnderCraft wrote:
We must get more votes for glider!

On December 13 2011 02:18 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Alright, this is the nuclear option
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That's all I can do, here's hoping it helps.

On December 13 2011 02:22 Novalisk wrote:
TotalBiscuit effect is in full force, votes are rising rapidly!

last day part 2
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On December 13 2011 02:30 sas01 wrote:
OH WOW!
Instantly we took the lead!

On December 13 2011 02:34 ELA wrote:
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Husky just threw this up as well

On December 13 2011 02:35 Josh111 wrote:
omg the power of totalbiscuit and husky..... This is insane

On December 13 2011 02:39 JOJOsc2news wrote:
Husky and TB ftw! Look at the numbers rising!!!

On December 13 2011 02:36 HolydaKing wrote:
wow... esports uniting. i'm speechless. so happy, hope it will be enough but as you know bots can do anything so i'm not thinking it as over even if glider leads by 20k two hours before it's over.

On December 13 2011 02:38 robjapan wrote:
AND THIS IS WHY I LOVE THE STARCRAFT COMMUNITY!!!

<3

On December 13 2011 02:40 Xyik wrote:
This is like one of the epic movie moments where the chips are down and everything seems hopeless and all of a sudden reinforcements appear out of no where to save the day.

On December 13 2011 02:40 procyonlotor wrote:
My joy is boundless.

Husky & TB and everyone working to make Glider win <3333333333

On December 13 2011 02:42 phant wrote:
I just asked all my friends to throw in their votes.

Come on Glider!!!!!

On December 13 2011 02:43 The_PhaCe wrote:
Great job guys! This community is fucking golden!!

On December 13 2011 02:54 MadChem wrote:
10 k lead. Yeah Baby....

On December 13 2011 03:04 Draconicfire wrote:
Holy shit. The power of the eSports community.

Speechless, I am.

On December 13 2011 03:13 Azerbaijan wrote:
Oh man it hit yogscast, I will be shocked if Glider loses now lol.

On December 13 2011 03:14 chaynesore wrote:
I've got nerd chills.. so damn proud to be a part of this community :D This is a milestone achievement for everyone I think -- tells the world we know how to get shit done :D

On December 13 2011 03:28 Jtom wrote:

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About 8k, that's why we can't afford to stop telling everyone to vote for Glider, she can catch up in an instant.

On December 13 2011 03:30 vilg wrote:
her votes are actually rising slightly faster than gliders right now.

On December 13 2011 03:34 Kiante wrote:
There's still 6 hours left guys. its far from over

On December 13 2011 04:02 kardinal wrote:
It would seem like both Jennifer's and Glider's votes are going up by a similar amount every refresh.

On December 13 2011 04:17 Malinor wrote:
This contest has turned into absolute madness.

This ESL channel is getting 10 votes per second now this is just absurd.

On December 13 2011 04:20 Merfyn wrote:
WTF shes getting like 30 votes a Second ¬_¬

On December 13 2011 04:22 Gin-san wrote:
WTF, she's catching up like crazy atm.

On December 13 2011 04:24 vilg wrote:
she will win easily at this rate.

On December 13 2011 04:29 ticklishmusic wrote:
just broke 100K... good god.

On December 13 2011 04:34 Grettin wrote:

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Husky and Totalbiscuit videos happened.

On December 13 2011 04:51 TheSilverfox wrote:
There is cleary someone/someones trying to take us down. Recently the opponent is catching up and in the last 30 minutes just got 5000 votes.

On December 13 2011 04:55 HolydaKing wrote:
yup yup like i thought, jennifer is catching up. nothing is safe, yet.

On December 13 2011 05:03 chaynesore wrote:
Guys, we're gonna get fucked over here I think.. I'm starting to record data so I can graph the growth rates at 5min intervals. But in the last two 5 minute periods, we've grown 699 and 770 votes, she's grown 836 and 1127.

Will post when I get a trend for the hour

On December 13 2011 05:04 Zozo wrote:
she just gained 400 votes in 60 seconds lol

On December 13 2011 05:13 AxelTVx wrote:
Are you kidding me? Within 10 minutes she gained 6000 ... this is complete bullshit..

On December 13 2011 05:15 ribboo wrote:

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90000 her
106000 glider

she is gaining fast tho

last day part 3 - for the rest go page 100 in previous thread.
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On December 13 2011 05:22 Loooui wrote:
She is getting many more votes per minute right now than theportraitart.

I made a little test, clocked one minute, and clicked refresh every 5 seconds and counted their votes and could see that she filled up 100 new votes about 3 times as quick as theportraitart.

If she continues with that pace she will overrun us!

On December 13 2011 05:24 caradoc wrote:
At this rate we are definitely going to lose

On December 13 2011 05:24 Benjef wrote:
Shes gained about 2k vote since I've started watching this thread 20 minutes ago -.-. the fuck.

On December 13 2011 05:30 Dodgin wrote:
How do we even win against this?

On December 13 2011 05:33 HolydaKing wrote:
hahaha every refresh she gets 30 votes. i know the winner already.

On December 13 2011 05:38 Hammer442 wrote:

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A bit over 4 hours left.

On December 13 2011 05:40 AndyGB4 wrote:

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Man those graphs are scary

What are we going to do about this, we cant go down after putting in such hard work!

THINK TL, THINK!

On December 13 2011 05:45 EchoZ wrote:
I dont get how she is catching up ._.

On December 13 2011 06:04 TOCHMY wrote:
something is definately not right here....

On December 13 2011 06:06 Draconicfire wrote:
Whoa what. The graph is so close it's ridiculous.

I think we can hold out at this rate though, but it's starting to feel like one of those campaign missions where we just turtle and survive >_>

On December 13 2011 06:15 gullberg wrote:
My fucking god this is going to be close as fuck >.<

On December 13 2011 06:18 figq wrote:
Fact is, the lead went ~20k ---> ~14k in about an hour, or a couple of hours. tt

On December 13 2011 06:44 masterbreti wrote:
almost 13 k ahead. Lead has dwindled. idk what to do

of course I'm voting. But I want to do more. I feel so lonely.

On December 13 2011 06:51 Gin-san wrote:
WTF, megajumps now. 100 new votes per SECOND.

On December 13 2011 06:53 Alejandrisha wrote:
holy shit glider is getting insane amounts of votes towards the end now haha.

i will say tho.. glider is getting like 5-10 votes every few seconds, but the other chick is getting blocks of 50 like every 30 seconds.. how does that even function

On December 13 2011 06:58 brachester wrote:
i literally spend 5+ hours reading this thread, this getting more and more epic

On December 13 2011 07:02 procyonlotor wrote:
Two hours left and 13k votes ahead. Things are looking good.

On December 13 2011 07:07 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
green bar time

On December 13 2011 07:08 Enhancer_ wrote:
I wonder how many people in this thread should be studying but are instead following this super closely and refreshing the poll every 5 seconds.

On December 13 2011 07:23 Qbek wrote:
God why do I have to go to sleep now ;/ Shits gettin SO EPIC! Someone Write a nice story about it once its over plz?

On December 13 2011 07:26 Ariovist wrote:
Alright now, this is getting ridiculous, EVERYBODY vote NOW as many times as you can!!!!!!!!!

On December 13 2011 07:28 Merfyn wrote:
Gap has Dropped

only 4% differance now.

On December 13 2011 07:38 Yello wrote:
esports fuckin up my sleep schedule once again

but remember:
"there's one thing i know: some things are just worth fighting for"

On December 13 2011 07:57 Theovide wrote:
I was supposed to play Starcraft, but this contest "NOPE'D" all over those intentions.

THIS IS INTENSE.

Maybe I should stop watching sc2 and just watch poll numbers, because clearly that is amazingly exciting.

time to get some sleep..

Thank You - Glider

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